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Topic: Pond Animals[|Pond Life Video]

Common Core Standards: RL.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.7---With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear. RF.K.3a---Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. W.K.3---Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred and provide a reaction to what happened. SL.K.2---Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. L.K.1a---Print many upper and lowercase letters. L.K.2c---Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). L.K.5c---Sort common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

Suggested Student Objectives:
 * Identify words that begin with /b/.
 * Learn that the letter Bb stands for /b/.
 * Write the letter Bb.
 * Build background for "Turtle Splash."
 * Identify cause and effect.
 * Classify and categorize number words.

Suggested Additional Readings: In the Pond by Anna Milbourne What's in the Pond by Anne Hunter Butternut Hollow Pond by Brian J. Heinz In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming Jump, Frog, Jump by Robert Kalan

Resource Links: [|A Thematic Unit on Frogs] [|Pond Life Activities] [|Pond Life Slide Show] [|Pond Life Animal Printouts] [|Pond Life Video]

Activities:

1. Frog Addition [|Frog Addition]

2. The Lifecycle of a Frog From egg to tadpole to frog. Children are fascinated about the life cycle of a frog. Read the book Fish Is Fish by Leo Lionni to learn about the life cycle of a frog. Let them re-create the different stages with playdough or let children draw the different stages on a piece of paper. Let children explain each stage.

3. Pond Life Cut out animals that live in a pond, paint a paper plate blue and cut green strips of construction paper for grass.

4. Frog Life Cycle Sequence--Cut and Paste [|Sequence]

5. Lily Pad Math Use lily pads as a way to foster an understanding of one-to-one correspondence in your students. Draw simple images of lily pads and on each pad, draw a number of dots. Draw images of lily flowers. Cut them out and on each flower, write a numeral. Children must count the dots on each pad and place the flower that contains the numeral on the correct pad. For example, if a pad has three dots drawn on it, a child should place the flower that has the number three printed on it on top of the pad.

Assessments: Students will be able to draw and label a picture of an animal that lives in a pond.

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